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Discussion on: Is it good or bad practice to make developers pay money for his bugs?

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Adrian B.G.

on several teams,

Holy ๐Ÿ’ฉ, you should call to them in a public manner, that is ... so ... wrong.

First of all there is no software w/o bugs, it is just a matter of not discovering them.

If the amount is significant I could imagine a lot of negative side effects like

  • hiding the bugs on purpose
  • no innovation
  • no one will refactor touch the old code leading to a lot more effects
  • no team work Beside, where it was the team? Where were the code reviews, the functional tests, the QA?

If the amount is symbolic it is a "wall of shame", which may have the same side effects and more on the social side.

Maybe they should focus on a "no-blame" and make the company learn how to stop having that bug in the future. What have they done to fix it, how it was found, what can be done to never see it again.